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Alas, over the last few years, there has been some sort of inexplicable geomagnetic reversal in the way Americans - especially the impressionable college-aged ones - think about such things. Pledging eternal allegiance to the new-new-new wave cult of political correctness, we now find ourselves in a cultural climate where millions of people believe "emotional harm" and "physical harm" are one hundred percent equal as cultural transgressions. Calling someone "stupid," they honestly believe, is no different than punching them in the face, merely having to look at a "Make America Great Again" hat is akin to aggravated assault, and since a bruised ego and a bruised rib are moralistically equivalent, they have no qualms about using direct physical violence in response to clearly non-violent, verbal or written criticisms of their ideals and declaring them acts of legitimate self-defense. The law means nothing, because the only civil code they believe in is their own feelings ... and if you slight those, no matter how indirect, they feel totally justified in taking physically aggressive actions.

Which brings us to perhaps the ultimate display of this great transvaluation of values - the saga of one Duane Buck.

On Oct. 5, the Supreme Court of the United States heard from Buck's attorneys, who argue that their defendant deserves a retrial because evidence was submitted in the trial from a psychologist, one Walter Quijano, who - citing indisputable data anyone can cull from literally a minute Googling FBI recidivism stats - said that Buck was likelier to re-offend than the aggregate felon based simply on the mathematically indisputable fact that black criminals, for whatever psychosocial reasons, are likelier to be re-arrested than whites, Hispanics or Asians.

This is the world we live in, folks. We are rapidly approaching a social cosmos in which merely stating factually accurate data about racial discrepancies in behavior and outcomes are becoming cultural crimes on par with LITERALLY murdering people. Things are bad enough already, but unless someone - or something - manages to drop a serious load of common fucking sense on the aggrievement-addicted masses, we're slowly but steadily traipsing our way down the road to true Orwellian tyranny.

Two stories, two continents, one overlying theme and two totally different responses from the global media

Now here's an interesting little social phenomenon. Let's say you have two stories that, all things considered, are about the very same thing - in this case, people saying some very pointedly racist things. Now, the variable here is twofold. In one instance, the scenario involves whites in the United States saying some very impolite and inconsiderate things about black people. And in the other? Well, it involves blacks in South Africa saying some very impolite and inconsiderate things about white people. The great global sin of "racial bigotry" being equivalent, one would assume that each scenario would receive equal play in the international media, with each instance being treated as equally lamentable and regrettable occurrences. Alas, the great stewards of international "news" really didn't see the point in highlighting one of the above-mentioned examples. Of course, publications the world over hopped on the story of two south Georgia cops who traded racially derogatory things with one another on Facebook (although I'm not entirely sure the U.S. Uncut headline "Georgia cops caught bragging about targeting black drivers in insanely racist Facebook messages" is necessarily an accurate summary of the episode. Or an objective one.) Of course, other outlets took a more sensationalist approach, but - with the possible exception of some fairly hyperbolic, loaded terms like "hunted" - these international publications are more or less circumstantially factually accurate in their no-doubt alarmist coverage.

And in this case, I would say the outrage is more than warranted. It's one thing to go after two civilians who drop the "n-word" in casual, private discourse, but to have two police officers text the term "niggs" to each other while on the clock? Forget the racist angle, the fact that those two lugheads were that stupid and careless is reason enough to fire their asses. And in the wake of this clearly prejudicial incident - which inspired worldwide ire - one just naturally assumes that there would be an equivalent amount of anger over #FeesMustFall supporters in South Africa, whom in addition to telling white students they have to join their campaign or else, have also been threatening their colleagues with voice messages declaring "at least one white student must die, whether male or female" in order to advance their vendettas? Well, think again - despite the very linchpin of the story being one ethnic group calling for the goddamn murder of a different ethnic group to achieve their political ends, none of the heavy hitters of global media - CNN and Al Jazeera or the BBC or even The Daily Mail - have gone anywhere near the story. In fact, there is a grand total of two articles about the incidents on Google News, and it appears that both of them are from South African publications.

How interesting it is that "journalists" the world over have accepted America's "epidemic" of racism - especially in the criminal justice system - as the God-given truth and fancy themselves on disseminating details about any and all events that back up that narrative, but they seem oh so hesitant to address the equally apparent reality of foaming, frothing, bordering-on-genocidal anti-white rancor pulsing through the veins of the South African consciousness? I guess that just means that some clearly racist examples of state oppression, apparently, are simply more worthy of discussionthan others.

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As you would imagine, the social media hordes didn't take kindly to Burton's willful refusal to kowtow to identity politics madness unabashedly discriminatory comments, with Twitter users in particular giving old poofy head the what-fer. Granted, I doubt intrepid reporter Rachel Simon would dare aver the thought of asking the very same "how come your casts aren't more diverse?" question to directors like Ava DuVernay, Kasi Lemmons and Charles Burnett, but the fact, stubbornly, remains: as you can no doubt see for yourself, the casting in Tim Burton movies remains almost blindingly white, aesthetically and thematically.

Now that's what I call white power.

Let's hear it for absurd violence!

You know, collectively, we spend way too much time talking about our respective differences. I've long thought the absolute best way to mend our fractured, contentious ethnoracial strife, worldwide, has been to go the opposite route of the cloying, pandering, multiculturalism uber alles enforced diversity approach. Rather, if you really want to bring about a sense of pan-global racial equality, let's focus on the indisputable fact that - regardless of our sex, race, ethnicity, language, religion, color, creed, sexual orientation or gender identity - we can all be a bunch of sick, disturbing, psychopathic cretins, all worthy of the death penalty multiple times over. Don't believe me? All you have to do is take a gander at the following quick hit transgressions below and you'll promptly be reminded that when it comes to psychosexual, sadist pieces of shit, said pieces of shit truly do come in every color of the rainbow:

Higher education continues to lower expectations for future of humanity

These days, the problem isn't finding stories about colleges and universities employing borderline fascist, free expression-squelching and ironically prejudicial policies in the name of political correctness. Indeed, the rub is in finding a way to limit the most recent buffet of madness before us into a single paragraph. Alas, we here at The Internet Is In America always put our best foot forward, especially when it comes to highlighting the litany of ways academia is turning the minds of tomorrow's professionals into totally unemployable, wannabe-radical mush - so grab yourself a plate and dig into the SJW smorgasbord , why don't you?

Columbia University is definitely one of the schools at the forefront when it comes to fighting for racial equality in these United States. In fact, they're so gung ho about ethnoracial parity that their upcoming "Students of Color Leadership Retreat 2016" is totally off limits to all white students.

There is absolutely no reason to ever think about visiting Roger Ebert's old website

Roger Ebert is one of those guys I admire and despise in almost equal degrees. To his benefit, his writing style greatly influenced me and even now, I often churn through busywork while old episodes of Siskel and Ebert at the Movies play on YouTube. Alas, while more often than not I agreed with his assessment of films, when he was off the mark, by golly, was he wrong every which way from Sunday. Indeed, in his scathing reviews of all-time degenerate cinema classics like I Spit On Your Graveand Goodbye, Uncle Tom, he can't help but let his personal politics creep into the "critique," which usually became some sort of slobbering screed against whatever tons o' fun considered to be "racist" or "misogynistic" (and in case you are wondering how entrenched his pioneering SJWarrior-dom was, keep in mind he once said Predator 2 was meant to capitalize on white people's fears of inner-city blacks.) Alas, despite his televised stance against political correctness, the palpable influence of Ebert's pioneering virtue signaling is GLARINGLY apparent at the vestiges of his old website, which since his death in 2014, has been taken over by a small armada of progressive-liberal types who have turned literally every movie review assigned to them into some sort of sociocultural activist mission. The blatant, self-aggrandizing propaganda has been in full swing as of late, with all of the following enlightening critiques being shat out on the Interwebs as of late:

Note, all this stuff was taken from just one week of reviews. Now tell me this, folks: if the cult of Cultural Marxism is so strong and so pronounced in the hearts, minds and souls of the media that they can't even review stupid, throwaway kids movies without turning it into a vehement attack on wholly fabricated cultural constructs like "white privilege" and "toxic masculinity," just what kind of societal endgame are they REALLY pushing for here?

Rapper draws controversy for stating he doesn't think racism is a major social problem

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